Posts Tagged ‘Henry Kissinger’

Tomorrow we hear who has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize. Of course, most of the previous recipients have been deserving. Some less so. When Henry Kissinger was awarded it in 1973, Tom Lehrer quippe...
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The pictures of Hillary Clinton dancing the night away in Colombia during the Summit of the Americas are now all over Twitter, and were first reported by ABC News: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton k...
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Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey is not going to be elected president in 2012. It’s not because he’s too fat, though anyone who dismisses the physical demands of a White House race on a 20-st...
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The withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan, formalised by Barack Obama early yesterday, cannot be precisely compared to America’s humiliation in Vietnam nearly 40 years ago. There have been no pho...
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"Within a decade," promised the top representative of the world's mightiest country, "no man, woman or child will go to bed hungry." Dr Henry Kissinger, at the height of his powers as US Secretary of ...
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Henry Kissinger is 87 years old but he remains a figure of considerable controversy. This Christmas, he has been battling to prevent his reputation being permanently tarnished over a 1973 remark he ma...
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In the pantheon of history's bad guys there's a little niche for Richard Milhous Nixon. From the carpet-bombing of Cambodia to Watergate he proved himself to be cruel and corrupt – and his in...
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After decades of waiting, the Europhiles have what they wanted: an EU foreign ministry. Why, you might ask, does our trading bloc need this? Well, it’s to answer a question that obsessed Europhiles ...
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Vanity Fair this morning (in a preview it sent me and which I wrote about): And this afternoon (online): The writer is Christopher Hitchens, lamenting the fact that he'll probably die before Henry Ki...
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The European Union’s High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy was in Washington yesterday to meet with Hillary Clinton at the State Department, but she was barely a blip on the Beltway ra...
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